Main Street
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These old birds-eye-views of West Calder Main Street were taken from the Clock Tower looking west.
You can find these images on the Scottish Shale website:
https://www.scottishshale.co.uk/images/old-pictures-west-calder/
You can see the crown of the C.O.O.P. building on the right, the West Kirk church steeple on the far left, and the outline of Addiewell bing on the far right.
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The site of the Clock Tower is now a car park and the drone image, looking west, was taken from that location on 19/3/23.
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This birds-eye-view (below) looks east from the Clock Tower.
Recording
The drone image was taken from roughly the same location on 19/3/23.
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Main Street in Maps
If you want to know more about how West Calder has changed, check out the OS maps from the National Library of Scotland.
Ordnance Survey (OS) 1853
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426710
OS 1895
https://maps.nls.uk/view/75523946
1905
https://maps.nls.uk/view/75523943
1922